# Victorien Tixier

> Victorien Tixier is the co-founder and CEO of ScorePlay, a New York-based sports-tech company whose AI platform ingests, tags, and distributes the flood of photos and video that pro teams generate every game day. He built it after an internship at a five-a-side soccer chain turned into a home-grown video-recording business, then a first company called Hydra, and finally ScorePlay in 2021 with engineer Xavier Green. By 2025 more than 300 sports organizations - from the NBA and Premier League to the NWSL - ran their media operations on it, and the company raised a $13M Series A backed by Giannis Antetokounmpo, Alex Morgan, Nico Rosberg, Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six, and Harry Stebbings' 20VC. Tixier and Green made the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 Sports list.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at ScorePlay
- **Organizations:** ScorePlay, Hydra, Sofive Soccer Centers
- **From:** France
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** Master in Management (digital major), HEC Paris, Visiting undergraduate student, Trinity College Dublin
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled ScorePlay to 300+ professional sports organizations worldwide, Raised a $13M Series A in February 2025 (total funding ~$20M), backed by 20VC, Seven Seven Six, BYL Ventures, and athlete investors, Named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 Sports list

## Career timeline

- **pre-2021** — Studied business at HEC Paris; visiting student at Trinity College Dublin
- **pre-2021** — Moved to the US for an internship with Sofive Soccer Centers, a five-a-side soccer chain; built an automated video-recording system for amateur football
- **pre-2022** — Co-founded Hydra, which built the first digital suite for five-a-side football centers
- **2021** — Co-founded ScorePlay in New York with CTO Xavier Green
- **2022** — Hydra acquired (July 2022)
- **2024** — Led ScorePlay rebrand from photo-management tool to end-to-end media infrastructure
- **2025** — Closed $13M Series A; named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Sports list with co-founder Xavier Green

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled ScorePlay to 300+ professional sports organizations worldwide
- Raised a $13M Series A in February 2025 (total funding ~$20M), backed by 20VC, Seven Seven Six, BYL Ventures, and athlete investors
- Named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 Sports list
- Built ScorePlay to profitability with reported 3x year-over-year growth and 100% customer retention
- Signed every major US soccer entity as customers - MLS, NWSL, Concacaf - plus NBA, WNBA, Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, and NHL clients
- Previously co-founded Hydra, acquired in July 2022

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — ScorePlay raised a $13M Series A led by 20VC and Seven Seven Six with athlete investors including Giannis Antetokounmpo, Alex Morgan, and Nico Rosberg.
- **2025-02** — Tixier and co-founder Xavier Green named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 Sports list.

## Links

- Website: https://scoreplay.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/victorien-tixier-28543510b
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/scoreplay/

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Last updated: 2026-07-07